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If you’re a young person in the modern workforce (or you know one) you’re likely familiar with job listings that target their salaries and responsibilities at recent graduates while asking for a decade or more of experience in the field. ‘How can I get experience if you won’t give me any experience?’ goes the job-hunter’s lament. For writers, the same frustration can apply; it can be incredibly …
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Welcome, jurors, to the second part of our guide to writing about the law. To briefly recap: the law is big, complicated, and dry, and it’s often mistreated and misrepresented in books, films, and on TV. Well, no more, I say. It’s time to turbocharge your murder mysteries, crime thrillers, and true crime with some basic legal knowledge. In part 1 (which you can read here), we talked about the …
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Law is one of the basic cornerstones of modern civilization, and its omnipresence is something to which most of us have grown used. Whether you have much contact with cops, lawyers, judges, and criminals or not, you’ll know enough about the ephemera and aesthetic of modern law to be able to conjure a hazy image of courtrooms, wigs, hammers, police officers, and warrants. But if you’re writing …
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Ever since Truman Capote popularized the genre in 1966 with In Cold Blood, America has been obsessed with true crime, and that obsession has since spread across the world. The term refers to a particular genre in film and literature in which a real-world crime is treated like the central plot device in a work of fiction. The genre has grown increasingly crowded in the past few decades, with …
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What set your character on their path through the story? Yes, they should have a goal, but why is that goal so important to them? What kind of event is enough to justify telling a whole story about the reaction? A talented author can turn pretty much any event into a justifiable reason to follow a character through to the end, but there are also stock options – easy, tried and tested choices, that …
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One of the hardest parts of creating a character – let alone enough of them to tell a story – is knowing where to begin. Their function within the story is paramount (that’s what they’re ‘for’ after all), but after that, how do you start putting together complex, consistent, and engaging people? There are many points of entry, but in this article I’ll be looking at a simple tool you can use to …
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